Cisse Not Even On Bench Against Blackpool – Team News

There’s no sign of Papiss Cisse today, even on the bench, in the team that Alan Pardew has announced will play at Blackpool this afternoon, in a 3:00 pm kick off, and maybe that means we will see him at St. Mirren on Tuesday night in the new Wonga strip.
But the team is quite a strong one, and Mike Williamson will partner Steven Taylor, in Fab Coloccini’s absence, and Shola Ameobi and Yoan Gouffran will be up front in a 4-4-2 formation this afternoon at Bloomfield Road.

And it’s interesting that big Moussa Sissoko will be in the middle of the Park with Yohan Cabaye, and maybe that’s Newcastle best central midfield pairing in the coming season.

18 year-old Adam Campbell is again on the bench and we hope we see Adam get a decent run-out in the second half this afternoon, and Mathieu Debuchy and Davide Santon are the full-backs, and the two Internationals look like the starters for this coming season too.

Jak Alnwick, Sammy Ameobi, Haris Vuckic and Paul Dummett are other youngsters on the bench this afternoon.

For Blackpool Tom Ince starts, and we’ve been linked with the 21 year-old winger this summer in the transfer market, and former Gosforth-born Newcastle striker Michael Chopra starts up front for the Tangerines.

We want to see a good performance from the team today, including in the first half, and hopefully a decent win.

Apparently, some players being held back for extra fitness training including Cisse, Tiote, Anita, Haidara etc and they will probably feature at St.Mirren on Tuesday night along with our new signings Gomis, Remy, Bardsley and Zoet……………..LOL

Pardews only idea on how to progress the ball up the pitch. The lad should have left the club years ago. A total and utter shambles that he is still being selected, only at the Toon. Can you imagine any other PL team persevering with Shola, my god give young Campbell a go or anyone, Pardew is lost without a target man.

I very rarely post team formations andvas Pieters has gone to Stoke it makes this one even more pointless.
Krul
Debuchy Collo Mbwia Pieters
Sissoko
Anita Cabaye
HBA Cisse Remy
Subs.Elliott Santon Tiote Marveaux Gomis.This line up would unfortunately involve us signing players and one which should have been signe two years ago.

FFS.
I don’t understand why some of our better players, HBA, Tiote, Hiadara and so on are being ‘held back’ for fitness – what better way to get fitter than to actually play a game?!
And where’s Cisse? Surely he needs minutes on a pitch?

Can’t help but feel wound up with AP yet a-bloody-gain.

Feel sorry for the no doubt large away support too, they’ll be subjected to the usual sh**e with that team (please prove me wrong).

expatmag – afternnoon/evening – could not get back to you yesterday as the ISP was having technical problems – got back online after 10 pm or thereabouts.
You mentioned the other day that you did not go croc hunting as you preferred swimming with great white sharks.
Yeh right – the only possible water based activities you will get involved in with “animals” is playing with a plastic duck in the bath.

Check,
For clarity who would you have played up top given business genius and best ever owner Mike Ashley has in his six years here sold or released 10 strikers while signing five in which only two remain at the club.
Disclaimer.
I have not googled this information so please point out in mistakes.

Don’t mind them holding some players back, as long as its for the right reasons. If they aren’t fit enough or have a slight niggle then wouldn’t risk them as knowing our luck they’d get injured and be out for god knows how long.

Though I think we should be trying to win every match, especially after last season, it is only pre-season and really shouldn’t be to worried.

Pardew already said Cisse would not be played, probs to do with the media attention and everyone wearing Wonga. Or maybe his fitness isn’t the best with this Ramadan? (spellcheck) Best off leaving it til Mirren maybe.

I’v just read an interesting article about the dodgy sites and satalite channels that show the games. Apparantly they are clamping right down on it because of this new TV deal.

First Row’s ISP is being blocked by internet providers and all that sort of stuff. This has came from a judge like.

I was just thinking about getting the foreign channels and dish aswell for the coming season, I thought it was legal.

Something I saw the other day is Cisse had more assits than Gomis last season and I think more passes in the final 3rd aswell. I could be totally wrong but I think im right. I do agree though from what I’ve seen of Gomis is he is a tidy player on the ball, much more than Cisse.

Expatmag…thats what we are facing living in OZ real danger!!!sharks, snakes, spiders (got bitten by a white tail last year, my leg still looks like i got gangraine)….in old blighty they got uhmmmm killer snails?

I got a massive sticker with the nufc logo on the rear window of my car (the wife hates driving it for that reason)…golf driver with the nufc logo, dog called shearer, son called alan, massive tattooes with nufc……actually thinking about it…im pretty crazy about nufc

Apart from no Cisse I think it is quite a decent team – I will be interested to see how Cissoko plays in the position most of us on here think he should be playingOnly coverage I can find is text on Twitter from Lee Ryder & NUFC

expat…im a nufc fanatic, but also an absolute golf fanatic…..snakes – i absolutely hate them..and where i am, man they’ll have a go at you at every opportunity….cant play a round without spotting a brownie or a tiger….maybe i should practice my driving a bit more to stay out of the rough….

expat…carrington park…yes played it quite a few times, very underrated…think they did quite a bit of repair to the course as i remember last time i played there the 1st was one big g.i.r….but yes its pretty decent – very fast greens…

That is obviously a false rumour about Gomis agents being in Newcastle tomorrow. A player (and therefore their agents) can’t speak to another club unless the selling club have accepted a bid.

If they had then I’m sure, given the way their club seem happy to discuss the deal in public, that we would know about it. Instead, the current situation appears to be a gap between the clubs still in agreeing the fee.

it was all good banter…i was with some good friends who are all liverfool supporters….a few had a go but in oz there isnt a hooligan culture so i knew it would be pretty safe,,,,,i was asked later on by the police to take my jumper on as some got pretty drunk and howling abuse but i sorted of expected it…..ill do it again

The selling club can grant permission for the player and his representatives to speak to any club at any time they like as no fee has to be agreed beforehand for this to happen.

If Lyon believe that a deal will be struck between them and NUFC then allowing us to talk to Gomis agent will allow the deal to happen quicker which would be to everyone’s advantage, we are desperate for the player and they are desperate for the money.

For all you Strolla Ameobi lovers – I told you see is holding us back!! Instead of an up and coming talent in Adam Campbell, who do we play in front of him in a ‘friendly’ yes you guess it your favourite useless sorry excuse of a footballer AME-FKCUING-OBI!!!!!

I hate the site of the man as he constantly reminds me of painful times watching the bloke trying to play football and destroying our build up play every time.

AARRGGGHHHH!!!! PLease for the love of God bring us Remy and Gomis and we don’t have to see this ‘loyal’ loser near our team ever again.

Most likely Faye Downey is having a say on who can play or not depending on fitness level’s, the players that have been left out are said to be working on fitness levels as the last thing we need to happen now is lose anyone due to them being played when they are not physically ready, which is what happened all of last season

what will a goal against blackpool in a preseason friendly due to disuade 13 years of evidence showing he’s no more than a last resort?

sentimentality does not play into this game any longer. if you whine and moan about loyalty go support gateshead because it’s dead in this day and age with the amount of money in the game. shola needs to go, for the betterment of this club.

I hate to sound like a prick but I knew he was going to score today, look a few posts back.

Instead of playing young, quick and exciting Campbell we are again stuck with Strolla Ameobi! It makes me sick it really does.

Ameobi always plays well in pre-season and in europa but that’s it. In the EPL where we need him he does fcuk-all and that’s my beef with him. I bet that Pardew is impressed by Strolla and is drooling at the thought of pairing him up with Gomis-yawn.

@jp well I have some news for you we have theirfore got no decent strikers at all and HBA is no good either because he only scored 4 goals in 19 appearances and only managed 3 assists which is below what I expect a quality midfielder to do

Now, we all know he has about as much to do with transfers as your or I, but if he stays (shola), I’d say itd be down to an amalgamation of a lack of suitors and us not finding a suitable (ha!) replacement.

@toonking: Count his injuries. Ben Arfa is a quality player as any old fool can see, the issue is how he, and the rest of the team, is being coached. When players go up to their manager and actually say they want harder training, then something is wrong on the training ground. That would certainly explain the daft injuries we picked up last season. Arfa will come good. Mark my words.

mattyNUFC – Thanks I couldn’t have said it better. Strolla HAS TO GO- goals are worthless in friendlies. He’s working his socks off to impress to remain at our club earning him thousands he would not even dream of at any other club-and some say he’s super loyal and a good bloke.

If I earned what Strolla earned knowing I am an awful player that is lucky to be at NUFC- a regular top 10 side- of course I would also be ‘loyal’ too!! Some people are blind ffs and then have the cheek to call us bashers lol just because we realise what damage this tool is doing.

sean
out of all of our realistic starting 11 I can only see 3 really good players at the minute and they are krul colo and cabaye.
the rest were either still new to this league, not consistant enough, doing too much of the show off style or loos the form they used to have.

Potski.
Get French Football News understands that Bafetimbi Gomis’ representatives will make the journey to Newcastle by Monday to enter into the advanced negotiations stage for their client’s all the more likely transfer to the Magpies.
Toonking-have we calmed down from last night mate with the accusations ??

Can we please have some positive blogs.all this negative crap about Ashley ,coaches ,.
Lets talk about the positives you miserable dour sad people.
Like it or not ,you Ashley haters ,when Gomis signs and hopefully Remy we will ,be a team to be proud of .
Many of you do not have a season ticket and you make Ashley the reason for not( im not giving that fat B@stard me money), so you will always have a reason to knock him ( your the sad b@stards )
Myself im the Happy b@stard who has got a season ticket who cannot wait to walk into ST.james park who will be roaring my team on,and soaking in the great atmosphere with 50,000 other true supporters.
Unlike a handfull other supporters in various public houses watching snidey Arabic channels wanting the team to balls things up ,as to have a go at the fat B@stard.
I do apologise to the lads who do support Newcastle ,who cannot get to the games through work or financial reasons ,but to the remainder get F@CKED!

Calm down Shola haters. Gomis appears to me as a Shola upgrade, and I have no doubt if he comes in then Shola will be sold to a Championship club. Pre-season games can be about putting players in the shop window, as well as fitness etc.

In any case, isn’t Campbell on the bench and likely to get at least 30 mins in second half?

Thump – Exactly. I would be running like a mad man trying to win the ball back helping in corners, staying behind in training to improve my overall game and especially finishing if I were him. Every time I see him on the pitch I always feel I can put more of a shift in than he does. It pisses me right off! And when he gets a chance he usually slices his effort or balloons it over the bar. Out of 10 chances he might score 1 and then his fans would heap praise on him again for being ‘the hero’ in the match. Only for Pardew to start him in the next match and do fcuk all again playing hoof-ball and costing us crucial points.

But looking back at the injuries he’s played through to wear the jersey anyone saying shola has never given his all are down right fcuking ignorant the man has damn near ended his career playing with injuries that no other footballer would

thump stuff like injuries these days is because a player is such a cry baby even the slightest of touches and what happens he will fall down I watched the diving world championships today and their was a diver who had straps on his arm but he did not let that hold him back and did excellent.

also that injury HBA first got was very similar to raylors and you know yourself raylor is going to miss another full season half the reason behind shola being so poor is his mega injury record did you ever hear of woodgate can you remember owen the fact is Newcastle have had a massive amount of players injured for long periods and a lot of the time they have just not had the same strength that they use to have.

tds – yes he did play with injuries but it’s not like he was ever going to set the world a light, and it was after he was here plenty of years and we all knew his limitations and that he wouldn’t get any better ever. He also knew then that he was close to being moved out of the club so he sacrificed a bit of his physical well being to stay at the club that pays him thousands more than any other club would. Hell if I were him I’ll happily chop off one of my testies just to stay playing for NUFC. Injuries happen in football it’s part and parcel of the game. There are many more NUFC players that have played through the pain barrier but they don’t get a mention.

it was reply to 157 I’m not disagreeing or wanting agument with you all I am saying is a point to add to your’s that really I only thinkmyself cabaye krul and colo are decent I don’t even rate HBA or cisse yet.

Expat,very well thanks ,living just down the road from where .you lived.
St Andrews drive, across the road from the Gold medal.
I did drink in the Jolly Miller,now and again as im friendly with a few lads from Alleredene,but theBelle vue is my local.

You can’t say that Strolla Ameobi is just as loyal as Harper. No freaking way!!

Harper had proved over and over that he was a good and reliant keeper and yet stayed at NUFC for his love for the club knowing he could be playing regular first team football and maybe earn himself a more lucrative contract or even an England call up when Seaman was near retirement.

Strolla Ameobi on the other hand has never proved himself to be good enough nor consistent enough to earn himself a better contract here or anywhere else. Has always been injury prone and never attracted interest from a club of the same stature as ours, only a few championship clubs offering less money.

JP
Who said he’d set the world alight? No one
Stop spouting sh1te never mentioned his ability or claimed that he was good enough
You claimed he hasn’t tried I’m saying that is bollox, you reckon you could go 2 seasons with a hip injury and turn down the needed operation because the club needed you to play? Or play CF in a long ball team with a broken cheek bone?
Aye easy to say you would, but garuntee you’d be nowhere the stadium

Have other teams not had injuries? RVP never had a full season at Arsenal until recently. As soon as he did, and scored more than 30 goals he was off.

Plus you seem unaware that guys play after injuries that would have ended their careers in the past. The fact that they can even get Shola on the pitch at all is a minor miracle for the medical staff and coaches.

JP you would be running back to save corners while playing CF? Even if your manager and coaches told you not to? Do you ignore what your boss tells you in your current job?

JP rock
you should go and speak to the great England CF Malcolm macdonakl or super mac because he has the full backing for shola and what he says makes a lot of sense a striker is about more than just scoring goals it is about getting the assists from crosses and controlling the ball in what is a physical box too.

To JFA, Towards Mackems you are right.
I place you in that category, as I have stopped reading your posts ,for that reason.
I will reply to your blogs if you contact me personally.
Otherwise I just blank the same old drivel you blog as I think you are a Mackem.
That’s my opinion of you,so be it.

Reporter to Pardew “Well Alan what do you think about Shola scoring another goal in pre-season?”

Pardew to reporter ” well the big man is really starting to rustle a few feathers I’ve told Shola hes earned himself a run in the team so where cooling our interest in Remy and Gomis. A well deserved new 5yr contract is being drawn up as we speak.

If you turn down a hip surgery and play on just because either the club “needs” you or because of your ego (knowing you will be first choice because of injuries) then you are a frickking mor@n if you ask me!

…an athlete have to take his body and generelle health very seriously!

Shola has messed up his own career and when we have nedded him he has been injuried for most parts. In some way I think he has both let him self down and he has let the fans down.

Granted he has been unlucky at times and maybe it is just a case of bad luck and that he is make of glass

potski
you take away all the goals RVP scored thatsason and arsenal would have been mid table last season if it was not for bale spurs would have been a lot worst off Swansea without michu.

are you aware of the amount of times players went down without even getting contact and as for coaches well they probably advise pardew to rest HBA but yous don’t have the patiences so he does it just to give in to you morino or SAF would have played him a lot less if they were our manager last year.

I never really warmed to Harper. He was always 2nd choice throughout his career . He never seemed commanding (actually came across as nervous) – not a good trait for a keeper. The reason he stayed was because he was on a very high wage.

I gave up my season ticket of 20+ years 3 yrs ago when they gave strolla a 3 yr contact. To me, it showed their lack of ambition – and they’ve still not changed my opinion. Hope they prove me wrong though.

Low fell mug,
You initiate your first post by telling the people you don’t agree with that they are dull and miserable and they should go and get fusked and your best response to criticism is to call somebody a mackem, intelligence isn’t your best attribute I suspect, holding fire extinguishers with your arms outstretched is probably the most compicated task you are capable of carrying out.

RML, im a supporter of Newcastle and I defend my club.
This bloke JFA ,in my time on this blog 7 days a week ,24|7 Spewing nonsense.
In my opinion Ashley is the best thing to happen to this club, but I don’t ram it down peoples throats 24\7.
How do you know he is not a Mackem!

Expat, don’t suppose you know if Gary Nesbit is Raymond and Maureens son? if so he’s my Mams cousin, I used to knock around with Adam, his brother, when I lived in Low Fell many years ago, small world! (I played for Gateshead Fell under 12s too)

viv you are right I do because this time of year it is very rare that you find anyone who talks much sense.
ever since the end of the season the blog has been nothing but total and utter negativy weather it’s the manager you blame the players or the owner negativity is everywhere.

people like myself use the real world when making points not the virtual world where fifa or football manager are.

Please note we reserve the right to delete any comments which we consider to be unrelated, highly offensive or which are posted anonymously.

If you have something to say, please put your name to it.

If you just want to insult people, go and find a message board.
is there no way guys we could not get this implemented on this blog to cut out all the abuse what is starting to manifest itself upon us .

Shola had to pull out of the hip operation when Owen did his knee in, and we were going to be very short of forwards. He played with the injury for about a season, and had to have pain killing injections before matches. He put his body and future career on the line for the club.

Despite the fact that he was not and never will be a great player, he is a hero to many geordies. Even if he had only scored seven goals in his career (against the Maccems) it would have been worth it. But I actually think before the injuries he had the potential to make it at the top level. The biggest setback in his career came when Shepherd signed Kluivert without consulting with Bobby Robson, and it appears that his contract required him to be played even though he was unfortunately past his best by then. Shola rarely got games then except wide left, with Shearer and Bellamy also in the squad.

Low fell mug,
A dislike to the way Mashley is running the club makes me a mackem, agreeing with the renaming of the stadium, the defamation of two club legends and letting his former best mate run naked on our hallowed turf would on further investigation make you sound more like a supporter of our lowly rivals.

Expat, sorry for not getting back straight away.
I know the name,s but I most know them as I know a good few lads from the rugby club.
Im 52 so I don’t know`if im older than them,.from the rugby club I know Steve havery, Stew wright Derek kell

Shola should be 4th or 5th choice, as he used to be when we had a decent squad. He is OK for ten minutes at the end of the game, unfortunately he usually comes on for one of Pardews Patsy’s an Anita or Marveuax, rather than Tiote or Jonas, that’s the maddening thing about the whole situation.

jazzy
what caused the comfusion was that jimiley had posted stuff that one minute looked like he backs pardew and kinear but the next minute dislikes him and you had did a post saying you disagree with when he backed pardew maybe your both different but it was jimiley who got me thinking that as for you it was just with responding to him but all I see is a screen so I don’t know how many are on.

Personally think Ashley has put the club in a superb position, however he needs to kick on and employ a visionary manager that can get the best out of our superb technical players. Graham Carr has pound for pound constructed the best squad the club could ever have had for the money invested, he is the true hero of the club currently.

Check,
Would you say that after having us relegated almost relegated and giving one of the worst managers on paper in our history an eight year contract and having a well publicised 130M pound debt on top of our 137M pound asking price which makes us unsellable is a good position.

potski doesn’t post often enough whereas others make up for it by their overly ignorant ramblings but insistence on being heard.

Jail and anyone else interested, the next FansUTD meet is this WEDNESDAY (31st July 2013) The Labour Club 11 Leazes Park Rd from 6:30pm – 8:30pm. It will be an open meeting but there will be no open floor – only questions/ statements submitted in advance.

No idea if the club will be represented and if they are ready to answer any of the questions raised and put to them at the last meeting.

HAHA Campbell on with 5 mins to go….. what’s the point!?
Like I said before, no.23 is PAST IT but if he’s the best 2nd choice striker we’ve got then we’ve had it. Same as last season.
Gomis & Remy PLEASE come and join us – we need you!
If we finally get a replacement for Ba then I’ll shut me gob.

Dont really want to pick sides either but for all those optimists still out there (you two know who you are ha ha..) it kinda all looks like what it is, a terrible season, a terrible DoF, no real change to the training setup, a player admitting training was not good enough (I said for a half year we were woefully unfit) and a pre-season of lacklustre proportions and in the same style as last season and with the exact same personnel (minus a few even) …. you have to be brass-polisher on the Titanic to believe that things are great.

JFA – as I said, he needs to appoint a competent manager, when he does it will all come together, if he doesn’t he deserves pelters. He has done many things right, however he has done many other things wrong, one major one, employing a charlatan as the manager.

viv, he has been here for quite a while and from what I have read generally talks sense. Like many others he doesnt post much in preseason to avoid the bottom dwelling scummy little rats like you. Go crawl back under your rock.

viv @283 – trolling 24/7. at least you are dedicated, coming back after all this time from your planb days. I was almost prepared to believe you were being rounded up with others but it IS you, isn’t it?

Jail for Ashley – Just wondering why you would like to have Pieters in. I personally feel that Haidara is the best left back at the club and that he’ll end up proving himself so. I liked the rest of your line up though.

I grew up among a huge family of Newcastle supporting uncles and cousins.
Among them were relatives who felt in exactly the way you do. And others felt exactly the way Jail does.
You BOTH represent time-honoured and honourable traditions of supporting Newcastle United.@ 271
You both, in your different ways, strike me as genuine fans.
I’ve been fiddling around my final sentence for 15 minutes, but Tsunki has beat me to it.
He’s right.

I do read the “overly ignorant ramblings”. It at least raises the occasional laugh. One earlier ranting why we didn’t start today with young Campbell, then we read in the official match report:

“85mins: A final outfield change for Newcastle – Adam Campbell is on for Yoan Gouffran . Campbell played the full 90 minutes yesterday in the under-21s’ 2-0 defeat to Kilmarnock and will get another five minutes under his belt here.”

MacToon,
I am home at the minute on standby , if I’m not away I will attend the meeting on Wednesday.
Joe Blog,
I will read a post that defends Mashleys outrageous policies and air my views accordingly.
LFV
I like Haidara but would like us to be in a position where a player has to play well or loses his place rather than just have a player who can cover ie RTaylor, also Pieters by all accounts is a capable CB also.

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